About Alexander Works:

Ever since I qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique over 20 years ago, I have seen that as soon as my older pupils discover how much the Alexander Technique is doing for them, they want their friends and family to come and benefit too. So they urge them to start having lessons. People are often interested but do they take the advice and come? 99% of the time they don't even contact me!

If 50% didn't come one could understand it, but 99%! Some of my pupils find this very disheartening — and so did I. What was I doing wrong? Could I be putting off all these people I had never even spoken to?

I have since discovered why it is that suffering people fail to take the help they so desperately need. It is fear. Strangely, not fear of failure so much as fear of success: people are afraid to be different, afraid to shine.

The Fear of Success

It was seeing a quote, often attributed to Nelson Mandela, that crystallised my understanding of this:–

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

These words inspired me and so “Alexander Works” was born.
Let them inspire you too. Seize your opportunity to shine!

Liverpool
26 April 2000

Find out more

Some important pages:–

• The Alexander Technique exists to solve a very particular problem. Though you cannot afford to ignore this problem, very few people even know about it. Why? Find out.
• Learn more about debauched kinaesthesia. (Very important)
• Investigate how the Alexander Technique works.
• Why don't the experts really understand breathing? Even the most brilliant minds are confused by their own debauched kinaesthesia. Here, you can find out how it's meant to work.
• The same goes for posture. Most postural correction programmes are a well-meaning mess.
• Read Arthritis, Asthma and the other dis-ease pages.

You need to try it.
Find an Alexander teacher and book your first lesson now.

If you live in the UK, start here.
Otherwise, start here.

Come back soon and read some more.